Backend Engineer
Backend Engineer should be judged by owned outcomes, not keyword count.
Salary from
$0
Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to
$5,500
Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs
32
Last 3 months
Applications per job
45
JobNote category match
Published signal
Market-wide
27.6
DOU responses per job · June
16
Djinni applications per job · Q1
Hiring Define the outcome, scope, and seniority before screening tools or titles.
Candidate Show what you owned, what changed, and the evidence.
Data Market-wide context only; neither figure is specific to Backend Engineer. Use the JobNote number above for the role.
Most wanted skills
Counts of active jobs now and salaries.
AWS
11
$3637–$5305
Node.js
11
$3909–$5173
TypeScript
10
$4006–$5158
API
6
$2562–$3925
Kubernetes
6
$3635–$5436
PostgreSQL
6
$3067–$4623
CI/CD
5
$2869–$4756
Docker
5
$2693–$4540
Java
5
$4430–$4930
Microservices
5
$3379–$5279
MySQL
5
$2234–$3783
Distributed Systems
4
$5116–$6424
Kafka
4
$3273–$5084
Event-Driven Architecture
3
$3568–$6389
Python
3
$2965–$4699
Spring Boot
3
$5451–$6168
SQL
3
$2574–$3950